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What is a good low cholesterol diet for a fussy eater?

I'm a 5'4 25 year old female who has high cholesterol. I'm not overweight (54kg) and I exercise 3-4 days a week, but I am a terribly fussy eater. I don't eat vegetables because I don't like the taste. The only one I do eat is Kumera (sweet potato). Having just been told I have high cholesterol I know I need to change my diet. My problem is not liking the taste of a lot of foods and wondering why meals should be something I dread rather than look forward to. Does anyone have any advice for a low cholesterol diet? Or how the best way is to incorporate healthy foods into my diet that still include me enjoying my food. Thanks.

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1. You really won't believe me, but I do encourage you to research this with doctors and scientists who really have done the research; Mary Enig, PhD, has her degree in lipid biochemistry , has written Know Your Fats. She also has several good articles on www.westonaprice.org. She is the webmaster there. Weston A Price did a 9 year world wide study on the healthiest peoples all over the world. He compared them to their less healthy neighbors, he counted cavities, took photographs, and recorded diets. The results were very consistent. His work is Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. His site is www.westonaprice.org and there is a huge volume of articles that address the different tribal folks, the individual nutrients, cholesterol, fat soluble vitamins, and what nutrients are needed for cholesterol normalization. Joseph Mercola also has a good deal of information on his searchable archives. www.mercola.com. In a nutshell, I can tell you what to avoid, but it may put severe limits on a fussy eater. Triglycerides are raised by increasing the sugar component of the blood, not the fatty acids. So the really bad culprits to avoid are anything refined- refined flour, (white flour, "enriched" flour, multipurpose flour,) anything besides whole grain flour- and look on the ingredient list, not the front, not the hype in the ads, and not even the "nutrition information" box. The ingredient list will list the most abundant ingredient first. The second most abundant next, etc. Even "cracked wheat" isn't the real thing. You have to see "whole" in the ingredient list. The ingredient list is usually right below the nutrition information box. Avoid white and "brown" sugar. It's all refined. The only unrefined sugar the USA carries here (was illegal for many decades) is Sucanat and Rapidura (evaporated cane juice) And limit those. Avoid sodas, even diet sodas, Most alcohol sweeteners make you have diarrhea. (All those with -ol on the end ie, sorbitol) Xylitol is right now the only safe one, but it's very spendy. Limit even juices, at least for a while.There is also a natural leaf called stevia, but some people can taste it and some cannot.It is safe if you can taste it. White rice jacks up the triglycerides big time. All things made with "enriched" flour, for many that's about everything. Pizza crusts, breads, donuts, noodles, tortillas, hot pockets. You can get these things in whole grain form, but in some areas it's not easy. And you can't get them in most restaurants, forget fast food. You will have to cook. The fussy eater will have to force him or herself to learn how real food tastes like. I cook regularly with the real thing, and most regular people who eat my cookies don't even know the difference. (This is a weekly event at church) Stay away from boxes and cans- soups, top ramen, rice a roni, cambells soups, all these are hotbeds of MSG. www.msgtruth.org. http://www.tgsformula.com/triglycerides_lowering_diet.htm stay away from aspartame, it is toxic in many ways, and can profoundly affect the immune system, permanently. If someone you love is having cholesterol issues, s/he is probably having other issues of health also. Cholesterol doesn't exist in a vacuum. Avoid Splenda too www.mercola.com has articles on this. Avoid fake fats, those are what clogs the arteries. And they increase your cancer risk, because they have open slots for oxygen radicals to park in their molecular structure. Avoid the polyunsaturates. The 85,000 nurse study had to admit butter didn't damage cholesterol levels. Weston Price and those who followed up on his tribes found animal fats were supportive of healthy cholesterol levels. The Massai is one of the best studied. Look it up, they ate a very high fat diet. Whole milk from cattle and goats, meat. And had blood cholesterol levels of as low as 150. No, it was not a racial thing. When healthy members of healthy tribes (multiple races) joined the "modern world' and ate the World's trash, they suddenly found themselves in very sad states of health. Some had a learning curve and went back home and regained their health. It is possible for cholesterol to be too low and when it does go to 150, you will have an increase of depression, and suicidal tendencies, even heart attacks (to my knowledge this didn't happen to the Massai) . Sadly, the doctors just haven't quite gotten to where they totally understand cholesterol's purpose yet. 90% of cholesterol is made by our liver. If we don't have enough (whatever that number is) it will make more--- out of sugars. When docs put people on statins, they have to carefully monitored for liver stress markers. These can destroy your health and cause cancer all by themselves. They can cause arthritis. They can cause confusion,. The brain is 70% cholesterol therefore it NEEDS it. it's best to eat real foods and let your wise body be enabled to do what it knows better than many docs. Also take an optimum dose of a natural vitamin. This is the be